It’s with great honor that we’re announcing our latest addition to the programming team at 37signals: Pratik Naik. I’ve worked with Pratik through the Ruby on Rails core team for almost two years. He’s been a top contributor with about 400 commits since 2007.
We first started working with Pratik as a contractor on Haystack, which he built the backend for. He has also worked on the new Campfire API that was rolled out recently. All great work. A perfect manager-of-one example. We can’t wait to put him to work on all the awesome things we’ll be bringing to light in 2010.
Pratik will be starting full time on February 1st. He will be the 17th signal. The second currently residing in Europe (Pratik is in London, Joshua Sierles in Spain).
David wrote this on Dec 21 2009 There are 18 comments.
Simon Nielsen 21 Dec 09
Pratik rocks! congratz on joining the signals :)
John Topley 21 Dec 09
Congratulations Pratik! Who’s the 16th signal? (There are fifteen people listed in the blog sidebar).
DHH 21 Dec 09
John, Josh Peek who’ll be starting January 1st.
John Topley 21 Dec 09
@dhh Cool, thanks. So many new hires this year, it’s difficult to keep up! ;-)
Mat 21 Dec 09
Congratulations. It’s good to know that the product we love and use will be in good hands for a long time!
David Chat 21 Dec 09
Nice! Love your products and it’s great to hear you’re staffing up on the development side. I’m a designer myself, but developers rule!
Daniel Tenner 21 Dec 09
Congrats Pratik!
Ninh Bui 21 Dec 09
Congrats Pratik and the 37signals staff! Couldn’t have added a better guy to your team! _
Satish Talim 22 Dec 09
Congrats Pratik !
Lalit Shandilya 22 Dec 09
Congratulations Pratik!
Anil Wadghule 22 Dec 09
Congratulations Pratik !!!
Claudio Poli 22 Dec 09
congrats Pratik!
Anonymous Coward 22 Dec 09
@37signals
It seems like all of the new people you hire have been contractors who have single hand built some new app for 37signals.
Which makes me wonder … what do all of the “old” employees do on a daily basis?
Why aren’t the “old” employees building Haystack, etc…
Berserk 22 Dec 09
@AC: Four hour work week? :)
Anup Narkhede 22 Dec 09
Congratulations Pratik :)
raghubetter 22 Dec 09
Congrats, Pratik…
Irfan 22 Dec 09
Congrats David! :-)
Dave Rosen 23 Dec 09
Congrats Pratik! I remember you from the days of FreeOnRails and Thinkwares!
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